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Adding user accounts for Linux and Solaris systems

In the following examples that show creating user accounts, the -g option specifies the group, -u specifies the user ID, -d the home directory, -m specifies that the home directory is to be created if it doesn't exist, -s is the user's login shell, and the final expression is the user's login.

Create the user accounts on each node in the cluster.

 To create the user accounts on each node in the cluster for Linux and Solaris systems

• The first example shows creating the user, db2inst1, the DB2 UDB instance owner. The mount point, /db2_mnt/db2inst1, is used for a file system that hosts the DB2 UDB instance home directory on shared storage, accessible to each node. For example:

  # useradd -g db2iadm1 -u 1004 -d /db2_mnt/db2inst1 -m -s
/bin/ksh/ db2inst1

• The next examples show creating user accounts for db2fenc1 and db2as. These users' home directories are under /home in the local file system on each node.

  # useradd -g db2fadm1 -u 1003 -d /home/db2fenc1 -m -s /bin/
ksh db2fenc1

  # useradd -g db2asgrp -u 1002 -d /home/db2as -m -s /bin/ksh
db2as